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Creeping Up The Nettle. Original pastel surrealistic landscape painting.
Soft pastels, Panpastels and pastel pencils on Pastelmat paper 40×30 cm (Unframed) This artwork was born out of an attempt to process and voice the absurdity of war and the surreal new world it propelled us into.
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Evolutionary timeline, from sun to fish, needlefelted on a thick felted woollen scarf.
Wool and silk fibers needle-felted on a woollen (felted) scarf. Natural sponge, a handful of plastic threads. 165×26 cm (Unframed. adhesive velcro cut in the right size will be delivered, so that it can be easily mounted on a mdf board, for example) My evolutionary timeline from sun to fish! A reminder of how long…
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Fort to fort trail. Original pastel landscape painting in a modern impressionistic style.
Gouache and Soft pastels on Pastelmat paper (360 g/m2) 28×38 cm (Unframed) This painting depicts a landscape I saw in 2019 while walking on the Fort to Fort Trail in Langley, BC, Canada. After finishing the painting I booked a ticket to Vancouver. Painting it made me realize I wanted to go back to see…
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Glow Flow. Original pastel waterscape painting.
Soft and hard pastel on Pastelmat paper. 32×42 cm Framed –> Light rounded dark blue mat aluminium profile. 2 mm thick glass. Water is a theme that keeps on coming back in my work over and over. This water in particular belongs to the Ij River flowing behind the Central station of Amsterdam. It was…
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Intertwined. Original pastel landscape painting.
Intertwined Soft and hard pastels on Pastelmat paper (360 gr/m2) 30×24 cm My husband chose to paint this subject while we were wandering in nature in the german Eifel National Park. the scene did not really speak to me till I felt the sensuality of those two trees, leaning onto each other in a tireless…
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Model on Red Cloth. Original pastel painting.
Soft pastels on Pastelmat paper 360g/m2 40×15 cm. Unframed I made this artwork in February 2022 during a life drawing session with a beautiful model posing for 2 hours. For all my paintings I use only light-fast pastels, which means that the colours are guaranteed to maintain their vibrance in time.
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Portrait commission
Personalised pastel portrait
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Snow on the Kiso Gorge – felted version
20×36 cm, wool and silk fibers. Felted version of a woodblock print of Hiroshige II Utagawa (1826-1869): Snow on the Kiso Gorge, Shinshū (Shinano) Province. All of my felted work is treated with essential oils in order to prevent moths from laying eggs on it.
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The Fifth Wave
The Fifth Wave Soft pastel on Pastelmat paper 24×30 cm Lately I had to face yet another wave. Once more I faced it as well as I could, not knowing what would await me on the other side, not knowing whether nor how I would surface again, oblivious of the past lessons, at times…
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The Fourth Wave. Original pastel seascape painting.
Soft and hard pastels on Sennelier La Carte Pastel paper 30×40 cm (Unframed painting) Waves were my childhood companions in the long summer months spend in Sardinia. Most of the time covered in salt and sand, I felt one with those stunning rocky landscape. Far away in time and space from that era of my…
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Tree Frog. Original felted picture.
Wool and silk fibres on woollen blanket. 3mm thick MDF board. 49×51 cm. This tree frog was born at the beginning of 2020. I made it using exclusively dry felting tecniques (needle-felting. For more info https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felt#Manufacturing_methods). I wanted to challenge myself and see how I could achieve a more interesting and vibrant result by layering…
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Winter sunshine in The Hague
Winter sunshine in The Hague Soft and hard pastels on Pastelmat paper 40×30 cm There is beauty and hope in the capriciousness of the weather in this corner of planet Earth. Here a blinding white sunlight after snow, hale and rain, bouncing back and forth amid the office building close to The Hague central Station,…